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Negative Automatic Evaluation and Better Recognition of Bodily Symptom Words in College Students with Elevated Health Anxiety

Auteurs: Erika Schmidt, Michael Witthöft, Anna Kornadt, Fred Rist, Josef Bailer

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Uitgave 5/2013

Abstract

This study explored whether better recognition of symptom words is associated with stronger negative automatic evaluations of these words. We compared participants with health anxiety (HA; N = 27) to dysphoric (N = 29) and to non-health-anxious and non-dysphoric control participants (N = 28) in the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and in a word recognition task using health-threat-related, negative emotional, and neutral control words. Participants with HA made significantly more mistakes on the IAT than both other groups, in pairing the evaluation “harmless” with specific “symptoms” (p = .02, η² = .10). Additionally, recognition performance was positively related to the IAT evaluation bias. The findings suggest that persons with HA automatically interpret symptoms as being more dangerous than the others saw them. This evaluation bias might explain the facilitation of access to symptom information in working memory that underlies cognitive biases observed in HA.

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Titel: Negative Automatic Evaluation and Better Recognition of Bodily Symptom Words in College Students with Elevated Health Anxiety
Auteurs: Erika Schmidt
Michael Witthöft
Anna Kornadt
Fred Rist
Josef Bailer
Publicatiedatum: 01-10-2013
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research / Uitgave 5/2013
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-013-9540-5

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